Davidson v. Maine & New Hampshire Granite Corp.

The plaintiff alleged that while he was employed by the defendant in its quarry he suffered an internal injury from the excessive vibration of a defective pneumatic drill, or jack hammer which the defendant’s superintendent had promised to have repaired. In the original declaration filed with the writ the date of this injury was set out as “on or about the first day of November 1933.” About five weeks before trial in the Superior Court the plaintiff's deposition was taken, and his counsel at that time announced that in view of a copy of the defendant’s payroll, which he then saw for the first…